All Building articles in 2000 Issue 06
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Features
Sacking offences
If employees cannot do their jobs because they become disabled, they now have new rights and, from April, a commission to enforce them. What does this mean for employers?
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Features
Take notice!
The industry does not always seem to take the payment provisions in the Construction Act completely seriously. The latest court ruling on adjudication shows this to be an unwise attitude.
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Features
Love on the job
Don't declare your passion for a colleague this Valentine's Day before reading our tips for the perfect office romance.
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News
Industry shares Sims' royal woes
CJ SIMS' experience with the Royal Family is not unique. Contractors and consultants that have worked on other projects for members of the Royal Family say they can be hard-nosed in their business dealings.One QS that failed to win a project to refurbish the Queen's Gallery two years ago said ...
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Features
Tender price forecast
A combination of escalating labour costs and workload growth pushed tender prices up an average of 5% across the country and 7% in London last year, and all the signs are that the trend is set to continue for at least the next two.
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Miletrian raises profit on falling sales
After three years of explosive growth, fit-out firm settles into 7% profit rise on turnover down to £44.8m.
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Features
If it's good enough for Farrell …
… it's good enough for other architects. Munkenbeck + Marshall's latest London loft conversion scheme is home to a host of designers, including Terry Farrell.
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Mansell to double social housing sales
Contractor Mansell plans to double its turnover from social housing and has appointed its first director of social housing to implement the plan.Kevin Willetts will join Mansell in April from Mercian Housing Association in the Midlands.Mansell's chief operating officer Philip Cleaver said Willetts had "massively increased Mercian's social housing in ...
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Comment
A princely dispute
First person There's nothing special about the Bagshot Park dispute. As usual, the industry's procurement processes are to blame.
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News
Jubilee Line crisis as HSE orders safer glass
Health and Safety Executive gives London Underground two-week deadline to review glazing installation.
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Major contractors plan e-commerce revolution
Laing, Bovis, Balfour Beatty, Amec and Kvaerner to create paperless supply chain through on-line service.
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News
Floor panel closes part of Mind Zone
Part of the Mind Zone at the Millennium Dome was closed this week because a floor panel on its bridge had worn out.New Millennium Experience Company closed the bridge after discovering that the non-slip surface needed repairing, making part of the dome inaccessible.A New Millennium Experience Company spokesman said: "We ...
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Features
Cladding: the new rules
A fatal fire in a Scottish tower block last year triggered a review of cladding systems. As a result, the Building Regulations may be amended. What will it mean for manufacturers, installers and specifiers?
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News
Invest in contractors, City urged
Fund Managers were alerted this week to a shake-up in UK and European construction that will lead to the emergence of a "super-league" of contractors that win repeat work from the industry's biggest clients.A study launched by Flemings Research at a conference on Tuesday warns that medium-sized companies will ...
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Carillion has edge on Project Jaguar
Carillion has been tipped to win the race for BT's £160m Project Jaguar.Sources close to the project said Carillion had beaten off the other shortlisted candidate, Amec, to land the contract to manage and maintain BT's property portfolio.Last week, Building revealed that the race to win the package ...
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News
Carillion tipped to buy failed firm
The future of CJ Sims is due to be decided by receiver Leonard Curtis today.A number of companies are understood to have expressed an interest in buying the 56-year-old contractor, which has remained in the Sims family for three generations.It is understood that Carillion has emerged as favourite to acquire ...
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RGCM to export British specialists to Ireland
Construction manager brings UK staff to new office in bid to cash in on Irish boom.
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Plan to rescue Borough
A rescue plan for public spaces and streets in London's Bankside around Borough Market has been launched by English Heritage. However, no authority has yet volunteered to implement the report.Described by EH chairman Sir Jocelyn Stevens as "one of the oldest gateways to London", Borough is threatened by large-scale new ...
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Wimpey blasts Prescott's call for terraces
Top five housebuilder Wimpey Homes has slammed deputy prime minister John Prescott's call for the construction of more high-density terraced houses with communal gardens.Ian Roxburgh, Wimpey's managing director of land management, hit back at Prescott's comments. "A requirement that new housing be high density may simply drive many buyers into ...
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Birse next to reshuffle
Birse Construction has become the latest contractor to restructure in an effort to focus on relationships with its key clients.The group, which last week returned to profit under the auspices of new chief executive Peter Watson, has reorganised into three divisions: civil engineering (including rail), building and process engineering.Former management ...